The Spin Within

If you were like me and watched hours of tear-jerking 9/11 anniversary coverage on Sunday, you were also inundated with new commercials from companies like State Farm, Anheuser-Busch and Verizon observing the day as well.

Advertising Age posted these commercials yesterday and posed the questions: What did you think of the efforts? Who did it the right way? Did anyone do it the wrong way?

The responses were overwhelmingly negative.

Here are some:

Michael Stout: Shameful. These spots involved people sitting around tables for over a year plotting how they could take advantage of the abject horror of 9/11. If … Continue Reading

The choice by President Barack Obama to schedule his jobs creation speech before the NFL’s season opener was more symbolic than football fans may realize.

Turns out that the NFL supports about 10,000 jobs in the U.S., all in NFL cities, according to a story by the Associated Press. The people filling these jobs are both low skilled and highly skilled, ranging from hotel workers to million-dollar running backs (skill may be negotiable in the latter).

“Overall, the games add about $5 billion to the broader economy in NFL cities, according to … Continue Reading

As a Navy wife, I can’t begin to express the deep gratitude military families feel when we hear five simple words: “Thank you for your service.”

The Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Honda Dealers have taken “Thank you for your service” one step further, by providing a family overnight at the Cincinnati Zoo, exclusively for tri-state military families.  Red, White and Zoo takes place this Friday and will provide 140 military family members a pizza dinner, up-close animal encounters, a night hike through the Zoo and a peek behind the scenes. Then on Saturday … Continue Reading

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Google is great for almost everything: online shopping, finding random bits of trivia, finding an address…it literally knows everything. But maybe that’s because it’s spying on you. Google has come under fire so many times for it’s spying, the news has become a part of pop culture. Check out this new satirical video on Google’s ‘G-Male,’ the most perfect boyfriend you could ever want. But maybe a little too perfect….

How about priority deplaning?

Really? Priority boarding, for me?

Apparently so, beginning today. As a Delta Skymiles member with an American Express gold card, I am now entitled to priority boarding benefits, along with a 20 percent discount on all in-flight cocktails, food, movies and other items.

I stumbled upon this factoid in a New York Times story, but assume I’ll get the good word from Delta soon enough. It is the latest perk I have received as a member of its Skymiles plan, following free checked bags, which were offered … Continue Reading